Fever Ray Announces New Album Out Tonight

Fever Ray—the solo project from the Knife’s Karin Dreijer—has announced the follow-up to her 2009 self-titled LP, and it’s out at midnight. Plunge will appear tonight on streaming services before its physical release on February 23 next year, via Mute/Rabid. Dreijer recorded most of Plunge in her Stockholm studio, with the producers Paula Temple, NÍDIA, Peder Mannerfelt, Tami T, Deena Abdelwahed, and Johannes Berglund. A 2018 tour is also set to be announced. Scroll down to check out the album tracklist and cover art.

Dreijer wrote in a press release, “I had a plan for how sex or at least some kind of heartfelt physical intensity could save us but I threw it off the roof along with the body and it fell into the silence that limns the edge of the song.” Read more excerpts below.

It is a joy to meet you. I don’t know how to feel about that. But
already my repetitions are beginning. Do I confuse itch and ache?
Here’s this helpful quiz to discover which it is, dedicated to a
global team of heartbroken self-diagnosers that stretches from the
threadbare social democracies in the north to the liberated markets in
the west. ...

The lover objectifies herself as music. The song is a prosthesis that
extends like a limb into the gut and pulls out the half-digested
heart, it’s kind of gothic and kind of a shame. I learn gratefully in
music that the decision to fall is harder than the fall itself, the
anticipation of falling; I’m embarrassed by gravity is what I mean by
“I put on weight”. The parent and the lover momentarily blurring, then
some kind of travel sickness, and later I am home without remembering
what happened. It used to bother me that violence is as intimate as
love, but I see that you have resolved that problem by dissolving the
two each into the other. Whatever is important to hide must be
important. Whatever is important to forget.